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My initial thought was similar, but then I changed my mind.

The difference between the people who don't have many choices and those who do is not money or wealth. It's whether they do what someone wants them to do, or they do what they want to do. It turns out when you do what someone else wants you to do, your choices are rather limited. But once you have a goal and you struggle to achieve it, then you suddenly have lots of distractions, lots of ideas how to achieve it in different ways, lots of ideas about alternative goals, and little time to spend with your inner social circle. So you have to choose very carefully what to do, and what not to do.




How do you support yourself without doing what someone else wants you to do?


By finding people that need or appreciate what I like to do and making them my customers.

PS. I have to admit I'm lucky to like doing something that also pays off well. Not everybody is that lucky.




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